FOOTBALL: Caney Creek offense is putting up points

Caney Creek senior Cody Fay, second from left, reacts beside after hauling in a 22-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Julian Hernandez against Lake Creek back in August.

Caney Creek senior Cody Fay, second from left, reacts beside after hauling in a 22-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Julian Hernandez against Lake Creek back in August.

Photo: Jason Fochtman, Staff Photographer / Houston Chronicle

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Caney Creek senior Cody Fay, second from left, reacts beside after hauling in a 22-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Julian Hernandez against Lake Creek back in August.

Caney Creek senior Cody Fay, second from left, reacts beside after hauling in a 22-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Julian Hernandez against Lake Creek back in August.

Photo: Jason Fochtman, Staff Photographer / Houston Chronicle

FOOTBALL: Caney Creek offense is putting up points

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Through two games this season, the Caney Creek Panthers offense has put an impressive amount of points up on the brand new Buddy Moorhead Stadium scoreboard.

With 101 through two games, the Panthers are nearly halfway to the 212 they scored a year ago in nine games played.

Caney Creek (2-0) enters the third week of the season coming off of a 39-13 win over new Class 5A program Lake Creek in Week 1 followed by a 62-0 thrashing of private school Pro-Vision Academy this past Thursday.

“We just have to keep getting better,” Caney Creek coach Steve Svendsen said after defeating the Warriors. “That’s what we said at the beginning of the year. We want to take small steps, keep getting better every game.”

The 62 points scored against Pro-Vision tied a school record for points in the game (2010, Summer Creek). The Panthers could have easily put more points on the board. But in the name of sportsmanship, Caney Creek kneeled on the ball after starting a possession in the Warriors’ red zone in the fourth quarter as the clock was in turbo-mode.

Thursday’s game also proved that Caney Creek has a quality amount of depth on offense. The team was missing senior starting quarterback Julian Hernandez against Pro-Vision as well as senior running back Gabe Garcia, who had four rushing touchdowns and 119 yards against Lake Creek.

Backup senior quarterback Cody Fay filled Hernandez’s role while junior Spencer Brandon became more of a feature back against Pro-Vision. Brandon ran for 158 yards and four touchdowns.

“The thing about our offense is we’ve got some diversity,” Svendsen said. “We can do some things with it. We kept it pretty simple (Thursday), but with all the reading we do — reading a linebacker, reading a tackle, reading the defensive and reading a safety — those are things we’ve built into our offense. It looks simple, but it’s a different read every time.”

Senior Jaiden Besaw is leader in the receiving department through two games. He has 233 yards on 10 receptions and was able to score his first touchdown of the season against Pro-Vision from 45 yards out in the second quarter.

“Besaw is a good playmaker for us,” Svendsen said. “Whether he is returning kicks or returning punts. He’s done a good job of that last year and this year again he has come up with some big plays.”

Caney Creek has 626 yards of total offense (313 per game) with 288 coming on the ground.

“We’ve got some kids on the offense that can make some big plays,” Svendsen said. “But we have to make sure our offensive line (is) our worry. We talked about that at the beginning of the year that those kids have to get better for us and be physical. We are going to get the physical part of the schedule coming up now.”

Caney Creek hits the road of the first time this season when it travels to Vidor. The Pirates, under long time coach Jeff Mathews, have reached the playoffs two straight seasons. Vidor beat Montgomery 42-14 in Week 1 and were on a bye in Week 2.

“That’s a game where we’ll have to be a whole lot better at,” Svendsen said. “We’re just going to have to be fundamentally strong. That’s what we wanted to accomplish (Thursday) was not make a lot of mistakes.”